Theme - Smiley Face Theme

If you want your classroom to be a happy place then this is the theme for you. Smiley faces will surely make your students smile!

smile theme
Posted by:missy #43919

I have used smiles as my theme for the beginning of the year before. I put smile faces with the student names outside the classroom with the title "Let's start this year smiling." I then take pictures on the first day of each child smiling and one of the whole class including myself. I have the pictures developed and replace the smiley faces with their smiling faces and have the class photo blown up to an 11 x 14 at Walgreen's for I think about $7 or 8. This class photo is then hung on the window of our classroom door for the rest of the year. I always get doubles and create a class book with the second photo. Each student gets a page to write about themselves, illustrate it and attach the photos. I then have the book laminatedfor the students to read. My fifth grade students love reading their book and...

Smileys were my theme last year. I did a back to school BB titled "We are all smiles over _ grade". Each student had a laminated smiley face with his/her name on the board. As a get-to-know-you activity each student (and myself) did a "top ten things that make me smile" list to put next to the smiley face. I even used S.M.I.L.E. as a "secret code word" When I said "smile" they knew it stood for Stop Making It Loud Everyone. They instantly got quiet, looked at me, and smiled. It worked great for me - good luck!

I have used smiley faces as a theme for the past 3 years. I teach third grade, so my slogan was "Third Grade is Something to SMILE about! There are a lot of smiley face lights, toys, etc. in the Oriental Trading Book magazine. I bought smiley face lights to put around my bulletin board. I hung smiley face paper plates from the ceiling with my students name's on them. I taped a couple of smiley face pen-wheels on each of my windows with grass cut from green bulletin board paper at the bottom to make them look like flowers. The first day of school I had little smiley face containers on their desk with candy and gave them a smiley face pencil and eraser. The student's loved it!! I hope this helps.

We're going to use this theme this year in our Title I room. We're going to use the theme "We're all smiles about good work" or something close to that. The latest Oriental Trading catalog has a boatload of smiley things in it, including a smiles sticker center, a smiley goody box with all kinds of little treasures for rewards, and celophane little bags for birthday gifts or whatever. I have really had fun looking through the catalog and trying to decide just what to order.

I use a smiley face in my classroom because it is my classroom theme. I drew 25 small circles for the smiley mouth. I reward the students by putting a small, round color sticker in each circle until they fill the smiley faces mouth. I have a poem that goes along with it.(I hope this makes sense.) If you are interested in this idea, let me know and I will tell you more about it and tell you about the poem that goes with it.

I was trying to set the tone at a new school, so I went for smileys, because I was a new person there, and I wanted to set the "mood" for the year.

I had a lot of wall space, and a lot of door space as well, so I decorated a lot on the doors to the closets, and used that as bulletin board space.

I did we're all smiles in Mrs. ___'s room. I had a large Smiley face cut out, and put music notes around it.

And, I did smiley face cut outs with each teacher's name on them and the time they came to music listed, and above it read "So Happy Together"... (this was also a great tool to help me get used to my schedule.)

I did "smile notes." Students could receive a smile note if they do something to make you smile, courteous to a classmate, holding the door open, showing politeness and manners, etc. Students getting a note would put their name on a small piece of paper ( you could put several on a master copy sheet)with a smiley face on it. Then they drop it in the smile note box. On Friday draw several names for their chance at a small piece of candy or prize for good manners.

Of course stamps, stickers, name plates and smiley face wrapping paper is available everywhere.